If you haven’t broken the law the only concern you should have about answering the door is it being someone trying to sell you something
With ICE Raids Looming, Immigrants Worry: ‘Every Time Someone Knocks, You Get Scared’
All week, Veronica had distracted herself from a constant barrage of news about a series of coordinated immigration raids that the Trump administration planned to begin this weekend in cities across the country.
She worked late every night, preparing for a weeklong family vacation to Florida to visit Disney World and go fishing. She booked a three-bedroom apartment for herself and 13 family members. She packed her 4-year-old daughter’s Mickey Mouse backpack and “Frozenâ€-themed suitcase with clothes, stuffed animals and a blanket to sleep with.
But then, the woman who cleans Veronica’s home, who is undocumented, showed her cellphone videos of immigration arrests happening in Miami. The woman warned that Freddie, Veronica’s husband and partner of 15 years, who is undocumented and has a standing deportation order, could be swept up. Other family members and friends started to call, saying the same.
Wait, wait, are we supposed to feel bad for Veronica, who is a stand-in for all the illegals? That deportation order didn’t originate from ICE, nor from POTUS Donald Trump: a federal judge would have signed it, after Veronica’s husband exhausted the immigration process.
President Trump’s promises on Friday that the administration would execute a series of immigration arrests nationwide added to fears that have been growing among immigrant communities for more than a month, as the raids have been debated, scheduledand then rescheduled.
The operation will target some 2,000 undocumented immigrants who crossed the border recently, in groups of family units. That is a departure from what is typical for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who tend to focus on deporting adults who entered the country alone. But word of the operation seems to have struck fear across undocumented communities, including among people who have been living here for years.
Not mentioned in the article is that the operation is for those who have been ordered to leave the U.S., voluntarily or involuntary, by federal judges.
A 17-year-old girl, who lives in one of the shelters and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said a shelter employee used coded language to warn her family to go into hiding and to return on Monday. “They said, ‘Your room is going to be very hot this weekend. Come back Monday when things cool off,’†she said.
And that would be a felony, helping someone avoid a lawful federal deportation order.
Across the country, news of the operation sparked fear, even among immigrants who were unlikely to be affected — such as those who had never had an encounter with federal authorities, and were therefore unknown to the government, according to lawyers who were making preparations on Friday.
And they should be afraid, being that they are here in violation if United States law. Why is this so damned hard to understand? All this is saying that Democrats are for Open Borders. If they refuse to deport illegals under court order, who would they deport? They even protect illegals who serious crimes on their records.
Democrats really should be asked the specific questions “which illegal aliens can we deport?” and “which illegals can we stop at the border?”
